Thomas Nashe — a remark

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“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy, which the day hath left undigested; or an after-feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations.”

On dreams as the residue of daytime thoughts · The Terrors of the Night (1594)

About Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe

1567–c. 1601

Thomas Nashe, baptized on 26 November 1567 and probably born shortly before that date in Lowestoft, Suffolk, was one of the most brilliant, abrasive, inventive, and precarious figures of the English Renaissance. He died sometime after 1599 and is conventionally assigned a death date of about 1601, though the…

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